Shoppers look around baby items at a department store in Seoul, June 24. Yonhap
More than half of newlywed couples relocated to other cities or regions after marriage, data showed Thursday, with most of them heading to the greater Seoul area.
According to the Ministry of Data and Statistics, 57.1 percent of the newlywed couples relocated to other areas, with 61.6 percent of those who moved settling in Seoul or the surrounding Gyeonggi Province.
The survey covered first-married couples in which the husband was born between 1984 and 1990 and married at age 32, while the wife was born between 1985 and 1991 and married at age 31.
The southeast, northeast and Chungcheong regions accounted for 14 percent, 10.6 percent and 10.3 percent of the total, respectively.
